Olympus C-150 — технические характеристики

Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 14-150mm f4-5.6 II Introduction

The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-150mm f/4-5.6 II is an evolutionary upgrade to the first Olympus 14-150mm Micro Four Thirds lens, which was announced back in November 2009. The main improvement is the addition of weather sealing, along with ZERO (Zuiko Extra-low Reflection Optical) coating on the surface of the front element, plus various cosmetic changes. Apart from the new lens coating, the optical construction is similar, featuring 15 elements in 11 groups and an iris diaphragm with 7 rounded aperture blades. The new lens also boasts the manufacturer’s MSC (Movie & Stills Compatible) auto-focus system, which promises fast and nearly silent focusing on all compatible camera bodies. Like its forebear, the new M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-150mm f/4-5.6 II lens offers a 35mm equivalent focal range of 28-300mm, while measuring just 83.0×63.5mm. The addition of weather sealing and improved mechanical construction have resulted in a marginally higher weight of 285 grams. The Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-150mm f/4-5.6 II is currently available for £549.99 / $599.00 in the UK and the US, respectively.

Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital 40-150mm f2.8 Pro Introduction

The Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro is a new weather-sealed, professional-grade telezoom lens for the Micro Four Thirds system. Featuring what the manufacturer calls the first-ever focusing system to power two high-grade lens elements using dual linear motors, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro lens promises extremely fast auto focus speeds and ultra-quiet operation. With a minimum focus distance of just 70cm at all focal lengths, a dedicated Fn button, manual focus clutch and a sliding, protective lens hood, the new 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro telephoto zoom lens offers a compelling feature set as well as a complex optical formula that comprises 16 elements in 10 groups and an aperture diaphragm with nine rounded blades. The Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro telezoom is available for £1299.99 / $1499.95 on its own and £1499.99 in a kit with the M.Zuiko Digital MC-14 teleconverter.

Conclusion

Now that everything is on the table, I have to be 100% honest as a writer: I don’t believe I’ll be keeping the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens in my arsenal forever. I’ve spent a busy few months with the lens and used the lens in the manner in which I believe it was created for. I’ve travelled with the lens. I’ve used the lens for product photography, portrait photography, and sports photography. I’ve even used the lens for some landscape photography from time to time. And in every circumstance, the lens is so much fun to use. In fact, I’d say the 40-150mm PRO is the best lens I’ve ever used on any system.

Despite the incredible capabilities of the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO, I don’t see this lens staying in my long-term lens arsenal. If size isn’t an issue, however, the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO is probably one of the best telephoto zooms lenses ever made.

Where it stumbles in my photography hobby is its size. The lens’ size makes it cumbersome to carry along for long periods of time where photography isn’t the end goal and it takes up lots of room in a bag where space is of the essence.

It irks me to have to be honest like this, because this lens is seriously fantastic. Many major photographers online have proclaimed this lens’ strengths, to the point where the 40-150mm PRO is considered one of the best telephoto lenses of any system. Its build quality, feature set, image quality, and ease of use are all the best you can get in the Micro 4/3 system and put every other telephoto zoom to shame. I can’t reiterate the 40-150mm PRO’s strengths enough.

For me though, it’s just too big for my end goal. Candid portraiture and fun street snapshots are where I want to go as a photographer, and the 40-150mm PRO’s size hinders its chances of being in my long term arsenal. It’s a classic case of “It’s not the lens. It’s me.”

People who need a lens like the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO will know who they are. When attached to an OM-D camera like the OM-D E-M5 Mark II, the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO is an unparalleled tool in the Micro 4/3 world and offers professional level image quality in an incredibly durable package.

Alongside the 7-14mm f/2.8 PRO and the 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO, the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO marks another fantastic addition to the Olympus PRO zoom line. These three zooms make up the best “Holy Trinity” lens lineup for Micro 4/3 shooters and cover nearly every focal length needed, especially if an MC-14 Teleconverter is included. For photographers looking for the smallest lens collection, at least in terms of number of lenses, this Olympus Holy Trinity is the place to look.

Autofocus

I’m not sure how to say it any other way: The Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO has blazing fast, super quiet autofocus. The lens’ autofocus speed is almost unparalleled. It’s the first thing people notice when I show off the lens and it’s the last thing people talk about when they put it down. Olympus has found a way to achieve extreme autofocus performance in their PRO zooms and the 40-150mm PRO is no different.

In addition to lightning quick focus speeds, the 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO can focus a mere 27.5″ from the front element. Combine this close focusing distance and the 150mm focal length and you’ve got yourself a half-decent macro lens for close up shots.

When outdoors and in good light, the 40-150mm PRO find its focus target quickly and silently. When indoors, the 40-150mm PRO has to work a bit harder to find its target. Luckily, the lens’ speed allows it to bounce from one focus location to the next incredibly quickly and it mitigates focus hunting in low light.

Also like the 12-40mm PRO, the 40-150mm PRO sports Olympus’ MSC (Movie-Still-Compatible) Linear Motor Drive System for quiet autofocus. This helps the camera capture more pure sound and less of the lens’ autofocus system zipping from one place to the next.

Olympus 40-150mm f4-5.6 ED M.Zuiko Digital User Reviews

7.8/10
average of 6 review(s)

Build Quality
7.0/10

Image Quality
8.5/10

• 9 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  remarkably good performance for size/weight; very lightweight
  slow, best performance at 150 at f8

  This lens packs a tremendous amount of quality for something so light and inexpensive. At 45 mm, stopped down a bit, it’s hard to tell any difference from my 45 mm f 1.8 prime. Even at full telephoto results are excellent at f 7.1, f8; a little soft but very acceptable at f 5.6. Minor issues with chromatic aberration, nothing major. Overall an excellent lens for MFT.

  reviewed June 10th, 2015
  (purchased for $250)

• 8 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  great IQ at midrange. light, cheap
  build quality, kinda soft at long end although can be stopped down for acceptable IQ

  great little telephoto for the $

  reviewed October 1st, 2014
  (purchased for $110)

• 4 out of 10 points
  and not recommended

  ???
  to expensive for the quality, CA, no metall, cheap plastics

  small and handy but I am not used to the extreme cheap-construction Level without lens hood and every few month I got dust between the lenses
  Optics are good — the first half year, with a bit to much CA. With weekly practice it’s getting worse.
  The price is to high, it’s just a cheap-starter Zoom.
  Olympus can do much better.

  reviewed December 30th, 2012
  (purchased for $250)

• 7 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  cheap, light, at some focal lengths very sharp, due to length can have nice blur at times, although sometimes rough
  feels flimsy, zooms out ridiculously long, AF (on E-PM1) useless for moving objects

  Just got this a couple of days ago. It’s great for portraits, and for nearer objects at mid focal range, it’s terrifically sharp. However, zoomed out on distant objects, I found it didn’t resolve very well. Shooting moving objects didn’t work at all, even at very high shutter speeds, but that could be my camera’s AF. Still, as a budget long zoom and portrait lens, it’s a winner.

  reviewed June 28th, 2012
  (purchased for $160)

• 10 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Sharp, compact, quick, light, handling overall, price, silent and did I say sharp
  non

  Incredible value. Now using it on my EM10 it is even better value. Great must have lens for a steal. Bought a second one for 144 EU. hehe.

  reviewed June 24th, 2012
  (purchased for $159)

• 9 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  very good image quality, light, no distortions, good price.
  No.

  Very good image, light, cheap. A real lens for MFT !

  reviewed May 29th, 2011
  (purchased for $260)

Olympus 40-150mm f4-5.6 ED Zuiko Digital User Reviews

9.0/10
average of 6 review(s)

Build Quality
8.0/10

Image Quality
9.2/10

• 10 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Very compact, good handling and build, great IQ
  Plastic Mount

  One of the best kit lens ever.
  Very useful focal range, but not long enough for me.
  CDAF is a bonus for M4/3 users.

  reviewed April 3rd, 2011
  (purchased for $100)

• 8 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  accepts 58mm achromatic Canon close-up lens

  I will wait until I have more shooting experience before rating the lens IQ. But I want to correct the impression that the field of view is not a true 150mm at the long end. I tested it against a Minolta MD 135mm f3.5 lens mounted via an adapter, and there clearly WAS a significant difference between the fields of view. I have no reason to distrust the labeled focal length.

  reviewed August 11th, 2010
  (purchased for $199)

• 8 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Here’s a post I came across in another forum:
  «I got this lens for my E-510, and for the price it’s a great outdoor lens. But in the course of doing some experiments to try to work out various IS and focusing issues with legacy lenses, I had occassion to test it against a couple of Zuiko OM primes (135mm/f4.5 macro and 50mm/f1.4) and discovered, to my surprise, that at the «135mm» setting, the 40-150mm kit lens was considerably wider than the OM 135mm. It gets the same magnification only at its maximum «150mm» setting; and at that «150mm» setting, wide open (nominal f5.6), it seemed about a half-stop slower than the OM 135mm stopped down to f5.6.»
  TTesting against the 50mm OM, the 40-150mm kit lens had to be set at «53mm» to get the same FoV (I didn’t test exposure).»
  «So the «40-150mm f4-5.6» kit lens would be more accurately labeled a «43-135mm f4-6.3″ lens. Still a bargain for the price, but some truth in labelling would be nice. And the recorded EXIF data on focal length and exposure with this lens will be somewhat off.»
  How come SLR Gear didn’t bother to measure the actual (as distinct from advertised) focal lengths and zoom ratio? (No one else seems to have, either.)

  reviewed November 22nd, 2009

• 9 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Lightweight, Cheap, Small
  Slow Aperture, Plastic mount

  I bought this lens used, and for what it is, it is a good lens. It is relatively cheap, in comparison to other manufacturer’s kit telephoto zoom, as the e-520 has its own stabilization in the body. It is also very small and lightweight, and fits my small bag. A great piece of telephoto zoom for what it is worth.

  reviewed March 7th, 2009
  (purchased for $102)

• 9 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Price, weight and size (especially given the focal range), IQ
  IQ not as great towards the long end, a bit slow (aperture and AF)

  The perfect companion to the 14-42 and usually sold as part of the double zoom kit, this lens definitely is a worthy addition even if bought separately.
  If you, like me, don’t use telezooms that much then this just might do the trick better than more expensive options such as the ZD 50-200 (which admittedly is a far better lens).
  The IQ is very good, especially at the wide end. My experience is that it becomes gradually worse, but the difference is not dramatic and when it comes to sharpness and contrast I do think that this lens stands head and shoulders above eg the Nikkor 70-300 on a D700…
  Build quality is decent enough and the focus ring is smooth and broad enough to be useful. Non-rotating front element is a huge bonus for filter users. The AF could be snappier and the max aperture might be considered a bit slow (although not unusual for a kit telezoom), but all in all this is another very good lens from Olympus.

  reviewed March 4th, 2009
  (purchased for $150)

• 10 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Lowest blur in its class; small and lightweight
  Lens hood needed to control flare; plastic mount

  The brilliantly engineered Zuiko 40-150 joins the 9-18, 14-42, 70-300, and 35 macro in Olympus’s class-leading family of consumer DSLR optics. Its sharpness results here on Slrgear are simply astonishing. At f/8 the 40-150’s blur index is 1.0-1.5 center-to-edge, and mostly below 2.0 all the way from f/5.6 to f/16! Cost is $100 in an Olympus DSLR kit.

  reviewed February 5th, 2009
  (purchased for $100)

• 8 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Small, lightweight, sharpness, fast AF
  focal lenght

  The best kit lens i’ve ever seen. Sony doesn’t even have a chance.
  Lightweight, fits in a small pouch. Easy to carry.
  The focal lenght could be more convenient.
  40-200 / 4.0 — 5.6 would be the ideal range
  I think this would be feasible without the need of moving to Pro.
  Anyway, the IQ is very good and i cannot complain.

  reviewed November 5th, 2008
  (purchased for $129)

Real World Usage

With all the specifications and features out of the way, nailing down where and how the 40-150mm PRO excels is a bit easier.

The 40mm to 75mm focal length is ideal for medium range portraiture and still life photography. The 40-150mm PRO’s sharpness and depth of field (especially at the 75mm to 100mm mark) are great for taking shots of objects around the house, for taking photographs of young children, or for capturing those precious wedding moments. With the size and overall perception of the lens, however, people will know you are shooting photographs and may not act as naturally as they would with a less conspicuous lens.

Spin the zoom ring further and you can easily find how the 40-150mm PRO excels with action and sports photography. The 150mm focal length (300mm full frame equivalent) is a lengthy lens and allows you to get yourself right on top of the action in a baseball game or a football game. The longest focal lengths also generate the lens’ best bokeh, meaning long range portraiture is also a strong suit.

But, all this is only possible if you’re willing to deal with the 40-150mm PRO’s size and ergonomics. Rarely would I recommend bringing the 40-150mm PRO along for a random shooting evening or where photography isn’t the main point of the trip. This lens isn’t suited as a secondary, “bring it along” kind of lens. Instead, the 40-150mm PRO is meant for professional portraiture where the shooting assignment is your primary goal.

Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 40-150mm f4-5.6 Introduction

The Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital ED 40-150mm f/4-5.6 is a new Micro Four Thirds lens whose first copies were showcased at the Photokina trade show held last Fall. Not to be confused with the older Zuiko Digital 40-150mm lenses available for “regular” Four Thirds DSLRs, this is a compact and lightweight telezoom designed for use with Olympus’ digital PEN range and Panasonic’s Lumix G series compact system cameras. Comprising 13 lens elements in 10 groups — including one ED glass element -, and offering the same angle-of-view range as an 80-300mm lens on a 35mm full-frame camera, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital 40-150mm f4-5.6 ED is available now for around £250 / $300 in the UK and the US, respectively.

Olympus 40-150mm f3.5-4.5 Zuiko Digital User Reviews

8.1/10
average of 7 review(s)

Build Quality
7.6/10

Image Quality
8.4/10

• 7 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Great bokeh, relatively fast at price-point
  slow, softish

  Great lens. It is cheap as hell, and you get 300mm equivalent. That is a joke! it is much better optically than the later version that have plastic mount, and which is slower and optically inferior.
  This lens is really usable, especially if you have hood. Not in the 50-200 ballpark, but still a fantastic lens for the price.

  reviewed October 30th, 2016
  (purchased for $300)

• 8 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  lightweight, good range, good image quality
  a bit slow; noisy AF; front of the lens turns while focussing

  Unlike the 14-45 which came with my Olympus 330 too, this is a very good lens. The construction is very simple, which might be a drawback because the front of the lens turns while focusing, and the zoom ring is a bit loose — it almost zooms out on its own when you point the camera down. However, the simple design might be the reason that it performs so well. Images are nice and crisp (one can see it already in the viewfinder), and there are no serious image quality issues at the different f-stops, nor at the various focal lengths (though I also discovered that beyond 100mm the lens is slightly less crisp). I tended to prefer to use this lens more and more over the 14-45 lens. But now I have the 12-60mm/f2.8-4 lens which solves the problem for wide angle shots.

  reviewed December 30th, 2007

• 8 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Good zoom range.
  Slow and noisy AF

  I used this with a E-300 when they first came out. My first impression was that its a great, compact zoom lens with a pretty wide aperture. It performs well optically too! My only gripe is its AF which can be slow and noisy. Otherwise an excellent lens for the 4/3 system.

  reviewed December 26th, 2006

• 10 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  comes with camera. Sharp images, light weight no need to replace it
  There is nothing wrong with this lens

  This is an excellent lens. It is 3.5-4.5 but has no problems. You do need to stand at least 10 feet away from your subject to get a decent image; it doesn’t focus at closer distances

  reviewed November 28th, 2006

• 6 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Lightweight and compact, sharpness when stopped down
  Build quality, very slow AF, soft at long end

  This is amateur tele lens that in pair with ZD 14-45 3.5-5.6. It is smaller and lighter that older heavyweight and much more expensive — ZD 50-200 2.8-3.5.
  The main advantage is size and lightweight of this lens (similar size to ZD 14-54 2.8-3.5). This lens perform very well in good light, especially wide end to middle stopped down to 5.6. At long end is soft and AF hunting much more than ZD 50-200)
  This lens perform better than ZD 50-200 when stopped down and won’t resolve 1400 lw/ph with E300 (imatest resolution target shot at raw processed byc dcraw and lightroom with no sharpening at all). This lens satisfied E1/E330 sensor resolution and possibly E300/E500 sensors but not E400 sensor.

  reviewed November 24th, 2006
  (purchased for $220)

• 9 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Opticall quality, size and weight
  Speed

  I bought this lens for my E-300 and I am very satisfied. This lens is an excellent performer and it’s low weight makes an interessting travelcompagnion.
  For daylight use this lens is quick enough, however I find it a bit slow indoor.

  reviewed November 14th, 2005
  (purchased for $299)

• 9 out of 10 points
  and recommended

  Small, lightweight, good range, sharp, well made, metal mount and fits in my bag
  Front of lens turns.

  I bought this lens as part of the e-300 2 lens kit. I was pleasantly surprised by the quaiity of the lens. I had only seen the 14-45 on demo cameras. I use this lens alot. The 40mm end is almost wide enough for normal photography and is 2 stops faster than the 14-45 at 45mm.
  This lens travels well because of it’s size. F4.5 is fast enough for most situations.
  Very good centersharpness, excellent edge sharpness and very low chromatic abberations.
  Much better than my Canon 70-210 that I had on my Digital Rebel.
  Came with lens hood!

  reviewed November 8th, 2005

Ease of Use

The lens attached to an Olympus E-P2 camera body

Weighing in at a mere 190 grams, the Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital 40-150mm f/4-5.6 ED is extremely lightweight for a telezoom lens. It’s very small too, practically fitting in the palm of your hand.

The lack of in-lens IS is no problem as long as you couple the lens to a stabilised body

The lens offers little in the way of features — there is no focus limiter, distance scale or in-lens image stabilisation on offer. Given the relatively slow maximum aperture at the long end, the lack of IS can be a bit of a problem, especially if you wanted to use it for hand-held photography on a non-stabilised body.

Zoomed out and zoomed in
Zooming is not internal — as you can see, the front extends considerably upon zooming to 150mm. The zoom ring is sufficiently wide and neither too stiff nor too loose. Zoom creep is not an issue. The focus ring is narrow and ribbed, and is used to give impulses to the micromotor that moves the lens elements — in other words, it is not mechanically coupled. The lens accepts filters via a standard 58mm thread around the — non-rotating — front lens element.

Rear of lens, isometric view

The Olympus M.ZUIKO Digital 40-150mm f/4-5.6 ED has a plastic mount that raises some questions as to its longevity, but contributes to the extremely light weight of the lens.

Focal Range

This lens has a 3.75x zoom ratio.

At the 40mm end of the range, the diagonal angle of view is 30 degrees.

Field of view at 40mm

At the 150mm end, the angle of view narrows to 8.2°, equivalent to that of a 300mm lens mounted to a 35mm full-frame camera.

Field of view at 150mm

Focusing

With the lens attached to an Olympus E-P2 camera body, focusing is very quick and essentially silent, courtesy of the new Movie & Still Compatible (MSC) design. This applies to S-AF only, though. Once you switch to C-AF, the limitations of the contrast-detect auto focus system employed by Micro Four Thirds cameras become obvious. To wit, a contrast-detect AF system has no way of knowing if the subject is moving towards or away from the camera, and regularly has to make adjustments that cause it to go completely out of focus before becoming sharp again. I experienced this first-hand when trying to photograph a local kids’ football match — the E-P2+40-150mm combo simply wasn’t up to the task. This doesn’t mean you can’t use it for shooting sports, but you will have to employ the time-honoured methods of manually pre-focusing on a spot and anticipating the action more often than you would with an SLR camera and a modern auto-focus lens.

Speaking of manual focus, it works in a focus-by-wire fashion. This should not put you off using it as it feels pretty natural in use, and actually enables the camera to display a magnified view of the subject automatically, i.e. without your having to press a dedicated button or enter the menu. The focus ring is slim but is adequate for the job.

Chromatic Aberrations

Chromatic aberrations, typically seen as purple or blue fringes along contrasty edges, are a non-issue with this lens. We were hard pressed to find any evidence of CA in the images — these are the absolute worst examples we were able to dig up.

Light Fall-off

With the lens set to its maximum aperture, you can see some pretty heavy light fall-off in the corners at most focal lengths, especially at 150mm (see the macro sample below for an example). How noticeable this will be in your real-life photographs will depend on the subject too, of course.

Macro

This is not a macro lens but its close-up performance is pretty decent. The shot below demonstrates how close you can get to the subject — in this case, a Compact Flash memory card.

Close-up performance

Bokeh Examples

Bokeh is a word used for the out-of-focus areas of a photograph, and is usually described in qualitative terms, such as smooth / creamy / harsh etc. In the M.ZUIKO Digital 40-150mm f/4-5.6 ED, Olympus employed an iris diaphragm with 7 rounded blades, which has resulted in a pretty decent bokeh for a zoom lens, at least in our opinion. However, recognising that bokeh evaluation is subjective, we have provided a few examples for your perusal.

Sharpness

In order to show you how sharp this lens is, we are providing 100% crops on the following page.

1. Ease of Use
2. Sharpness: 1

3. Cont… 2

4. Cont… 3

1. Sample Images
2. Lens Specs
3. Rating & Conclusion

1. Review Roundup

1. Ease of Use
2. Sharpness: 1

3. Cont… 2

4. Cont… 3

5. Sample Images
6. Lens Specs
7. Rating & Conclusion
8. Review Roundup